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Welcome to the “Day After Christmas”! I pray you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and enjoyed a festive meal and fellowship together. But here we are: the day after Christmas. The dishes from the dinner may still be in the sink. Wrapping paper may still be on the

Never allow the “extras” of Christmas take you away from the “essentials” of Christmas. This season – I feel more than at any other time in my life – the need to have laser like focus on the true power of Christmas. It is so easy for us to get

Are you focused on people or simply being productive? We live in a world focused on the bottom line. We have to meet our numbers on the job and maintain the role of super-dad and super-mom at home. If we are not careful we can find ourselves in the trap

Never settle for good when you know you can do better. We live in a world of settlers. Of course I am not talking about pioneers who blazed the trail of the west and “settled” into a new land. I am talking about people willing to “settle” for second best

I recently read of a woman who adamantly declared to a minister, “I will never forgive my father!” She had grown up with a keen awareness that her father favored her younger sister, and she kept a mental record of all the things that he had done or failed to

Stop beating yourself up. Do you remember as a kid those times on the playground when the “bully of the playground” would come and pound on kids that were smaller and more scared? I remember watching in helplessness as other kids would get into fights and someone would eventually leave

It is time for your life to become a symphony. I love classical music. To hear the robust sounds of the various pieces of the orchestra each with their unique tone come together in complete harmony to make an unforgettable melody. It is a true fact that music soothes the

How you live your day is how you live your life. Therefore you will never change your life until you change your day. So many people are waiting for a revolutionary change to take place in their life; they are waiting for that “moment” to come and for everything to

You will always be immature as long as you are willing to stay insecure. The most immature people in life are those who are unwilling to work through their insecurities. Ironically – they are also the most difficult people to work with in life. Why is that the case? Insecurity

One of the greatest ironies of leadership and success is this statement: Who you are becoming is far more important than what you are doing; but what you are doing is determining who you become. On the surface this sounds like a confusing statement…but there is so much truth packed